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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7520

28 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Resource partner Paul Airley has joined Fladgate LLP from McCarthy Tétrault

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Leeds University

Hill Dickinson has promoted two partners to salaried members and four partners to legal directors

Nottingham-based law firm Rothera Dowson have appointed Paul Brill to the employment law department

Park Court Chambers and New Court Chambers, specialist criminal, commercial and civil sets, merged on 18 June

Dominic Regan on Fairclough Homes, dishonest claims & the Supreme Court

Dr Jayne Allam & Sam Westmacott explore why the Ireland report failed to deliver

Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

Crime doesn’t pay out compensation, notes Anna Hughes

Malcolm Dowden considers the liability of a parent company

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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